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A good friend of mine (we'll call him G) worked at an auto body shop. An older client came in and was bitching about how his brand new Mazda (IIRC) kept freaking out when he change…

I don't have the citations to back this up anymore than you did, but it was also passed because of the rise in Black Power movements walking around with guns. I used to be an obnox…

I guess I must be an AI because I could not read that to save my life. I wonder if this is like the “rotate an apple” problem.

Yes, I don't think that arresting people for the crime of not having money is a good idea. We also cannot seem to fund any actual drug programs, because US citizens hate the idea o…

Ohhh the links at the bottom of this guys site are wild and good reading. https://thiaoouba.com/ Please note I am disputing his science on the efficacy of a vertical fridge.

I’m interested in comparing the ratio of (accidents / miles driven) between the two. Tesla seems like it has an engineering culture built around shipping whatever version of produc…

Without the context of “Antigravity” being a product name this headline is science fiction gold.

The site would be better if it linked to the actual regulation that prohibits each type of business instead of just making the claim “0 new factories of this type have been built”.…

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Oh hey, it’s the history of Indigenous people in North America (especially Canada and the USA) repeating itself in Greenland. Make a biased test, call it impartial, then use it to …

Dang. This is one of those annoying cases of finding out something that I would clearly love exists only as it leaves. I would have subscribed if I knew that the Farmer's Almanac s…

We are in so much trouble as a society. The real danger here is that ABC did it before the White House ordered or told them too. Fascists rise in power the more scared we are to sp…

The first sentence tells you what you need to know. The leader assumes the worker is making a “web of lies” to get out of responsibility. This leader is trash. You need to listen t…

The NsF shouldn’t be rolling over to do what this new dictator in the US wants. This goes way beyond DEI; that’s just the trap to get insecure white men to agree with it. The NSF i…

Article is paywalled but I think inverting the question is fun. Why don’t small kids in other western countries ride the subway alone?

Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).

And this is why right to repair laws are a thing. Also, genuinely I’d be interested in helping this guy hack his exoskeleton to let it work again.

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Or. And I’m just spit balling here. Plant super long lived trees. Redwoods live for >200 years. Eucalyptus grow very quickly and might be a good option too.

Yes and, I hate working with people who think this means you can literally say “you are stupid” and that this the same as providing helpful feedback. If you are blunt to the point …

Depends on the microcontroller and the rest of your stack but it should be fairly straight forward. Feed received frames from your MAC into the appropriate receive function in a ne…

Ask yourself why you want something that is made in the US. I have long had the same bias, and I am trying to understand it myself. Is it perceived quality of the final object? Do …

An important thing to take from this is that if you pay your teachers well, and also make sure that all the kids in school have a house (since military folk get housing for their f…

4 profanity filled minutes of solid advice on how to be better at the slightly absurd job we call "engineering", or "development" or whatever. Also, proof that some content from Ti…